Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted
Apr. 12th, 2007 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lensmanOkay first my comments on the whole iMess with Imus... Finally after how many times, the advertisers realize that by advertising with these pieces of crap they are being represented by them, and now they finally realize that they have the control and can pull their business so as to not have to pay for his kind of ranting.. Great, why'd it take so long... (As to this particular rant, okay it's the straw that broke the camels back, was completely uncalled for, and was a pure insult. But the words themselves; hey he has his right to be a bigoted asshole... He just doesn't have the right to represent his bigotry on his employers dime... unless thats how they want to be viewed...)
But now onto bigger fish that NEED frying The White House Deleting Thousands of E-mails that should not have been used on outside servers in the first place. This so they could just avoid having them logged under the laws that require them to be saved...
Some sources are claiming it's more like 5 MILLION...
Well now we're hearing that over 22 WH staff used RNC servers, and some even used the services of outside mail providers like AOL, and blackberries.... (Probably Google, Yahoo, and HotMail too...)
The government oversight comities are subpoenaing the records of these e-mails from with in the government, I don't think they know enough to subpoena them from the outside services.
Those services all have their own email servers, and those servers all have system admin's, and those admin's must if they are worth anything make backups of their systems, so that mail isn't "lost". I know some of you out in LJ land must know who these admin's are, or you may even be one of them yourself... I say it's now up to all of us with server access to systems that may contain these records to help our government do its work and preserve those records. Scan for any references to the e-mail addresses and names listed in the government's documents in the headers of your mail backups and make sure those tapes are preserved. Then forward the fact that you may have some of the missing info to the government... (I'm not sure who that should be, I'd guess various and multiple members of the senate and probably the owner & recipients of the original e-mails, Just so they have the chance to come forward... ) :-)
Yes it's a moral grey area in that as sys admins we are not normally supposed to look at the mail that flows through our systems, but I think the same reasoning that requires us to be able to view the files for which we are responsible for in order to do network diagnostics and system maintainence should also apply to us helping to look for e-mails that both our clients and more importantly our government have potentially "lost".
Feel free to forward this to Sys Admin's who you may think might have such responsibilities...
But now onto bigger fish that NEED frying The White House Deleting Thousands of E-mails that should not have been used on outside servers in the first place. This so they could just avoid having them logged under the laws that require them to be saved...
Some sources are claiming it's more like 5 MILLION...
Well now we're hearing that over 22 WH staff used RNC servers, and some even used the services of outside mail providers like AOL, and blackberries.... (Probably Google, Yahoo, and HotMail too...)
The government oversight comities are subpoenaing the records of these e-mails from with in the government, I don't think they know enough to subpoena them from the outside services.
Those services all have their own email servers, and those servers all have system admin's, and those admin's must if they are worth anything make backups of their systems, so that mail isn't "lost". I know some of you out in LJ land must know who these admin's are, or you may even be one of them yourself... I say it's now up to all of us with server access to systems that may contain these records to help our government do its work and preserve those records. Scan for any references to the e-mail addresses and names listed in the government's documents in the headers of your mail backups and make sure those tapes are preserved. Then forward the fact that you may have some of the missing info to the government... (I'm not sure who that should be, I'd guess various and multiple members of the senate and probably the owner & recipients of the original e-mails, Just so they have the chance to come forward... ) :-)
Yes it's a moral grey area in that as sys admins we are not normally supposed to look at the mail that flows through our systems, but I think the same reasoning that requires us to be able to view the files for which we are responsible for in order to do network diagnostics and system maintainence should also apply to us helping to look for e-mails that both our clients and more importantly our government have potentially "lost".
Feel free to forward this to Sys Admin's who you may think might have such responsibilities...
